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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Mix 1541 FLASH!, 1581, 1764
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Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 02:26:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 02:26:02 1987
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in article <3108@mtgzz.UUCP>, bjh@mtgzz.UUCP (b.j.hudson) says:
> Bob Skyles says there is no FLASH! upgrade planned for the 1571/81.

Some people announce products 2 years before they're ready for shipment.
Others don't announce products until the day they're shipped, in fear of the
"Osborne Syndrome" and in fear that someone will copy their jiffy
revolutionary new piece of hardware. I suspect that Skyles is in the latter
catagory. Said one guy at a major hardware company (not in direct competition)
about Skyles, "he used to be a good engineer, but then he turned into a good
businessman, with everything that implies...."

> It would be nice to fully utilize the 1571 and 1581 drives from a C-64.

Who knows, maybe Skyles or someone else is currently working on it, and just
doesn't want to announce it while it's still in wire-wrapped hand-built
prototype! 

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